Word: biggers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byrd for his Antartic expedition). Soon Elnatein will be sold for "Not a cough in a carload"; and James Joyce's books, because "They are mild--yet they satisfy." Morning, evening, all day long chant the priests "Advertisa is great. Advertisa is great. Blessed be Advertisa, mother of Mammon. Bigger and better advertising...
...becomes urbanized, becomes barren. . . . The progressive sterility of city dwellers is in direct ratio to the rapidly monstrous growth of the city. Berlin, which in one century passed from 100,000 to more than 4,000,000 inhabitants, is today the most sterile city in the world. The bigger a city becomes the more barren it becomes...
Passing through Nominee Curtis's home state was great sport. The Brown Derby swept and waved at every platform pause. People said the crowd at Topeka was "as big as Bryan's"; bigger, even, than Senator Curtis got when he went home a Nominee?but then, everyone in Topeka knows what Mr. Curtis looks like. The Brown Derby was something of a curiosity as well as an enthusiasm...
...national importance of the gathering she addressed, have lent notoriety to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt's earnest charge to 2,000 Methodist ministers in convention at Springfield, Ohio (TIME, Sept. 24). "Take to your pulpits!" was her cry. "Preach that message! Rouse your communities! The [enforcement] issue is bigger than party lines." As everyone knows, Mrs. Willebrandt is Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. Her speech was not repudiated by Methodist Bishops...
...books which would get bigger mention, did space permit...